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• habits created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Screen time boundaries protect deep work

Physical separation from your smartphone is often the only reliable way to achieve extended flow states. Relying on sheer willpower fails, because Environment design is more reliable than willpower.¹

Footnotes

1. Ward, A. F. (2017). Brain Drain. ↩